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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Pershing Square Holdings LTD | 2,958.0 | 2.1% |
| Intercontinental Hotels Group PLC | 5,916.0 | 1.5% |
| Tesco PLC | 253.1 | 1.4% |
| B&M European Value Retail S.A. | 572.4 | 1.1% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 151.4 | 1.1% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Taylor Wimpey PLC | 107.8 | -4.2% |
| Ocado Group PLC | 735.0 | -3.4% |
| Persimmon PLC | 988.4 | -3.3% |
| Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC | 3,881.0 | -2.8% |
| Barratt Developments PLC | 423.1 | -2.4% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,255 | -0.1% | -3.6% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,337 | -0.5% | 1.9% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,591 | 0.1% | 15.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 31,566 | 0.4% | 9.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,115 | -0.5% | 1.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 81.42 | 0.21% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 84.95 | 0.18% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,887 | -0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 374 | 0.0% |
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The UK 100 called to open +23 points at 7,280. The UK 100 looks set to open marginally higher this morning following gains in the US and Asia, On Wall Street, Nvidia was the star of the show, jumping 8.5% ahead of results on Wednesday driving the S&P 500 and Nasdaq higher, up 0.7% and 1.6% respectively.. The Dow’s progress was more modest, up 0.1%. In Asia, the Nikkei 225 index was up 0.9%, in China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.3%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was up 0.2%.
BHP Group report a FY attributable profit of $12.9bn, down 58% YoY from $30.9bn. They have declared a final dividend of 80 cents bringing their FY total to 170 cents, down YoY from 325 cents.
John Wood Group expects their annual adjusted core profit to be above its previous expectations, powered by strong growth across the British oilfield services and engineering firm’s business units. Their CFO David Kemp will retire from his role and a process to appoint his successor is underway.
Lookers reports a H1 pretax profit of £40.4m and an adjusted EPS of £0.09.
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Baidu
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NVIDIA
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 24th August 2023:
Aviva
Legal & General Group
St. James’s Place
Mondi
Diageo
Land Securities Group
Auto Trader Group
Haleon
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 24th August 2023:
Plus500
Hammerson
OSB Group
Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst
Ibstock
HICL Infrastructure
Drax Group
RHI Magnesita N.V.
Shaftesbury Capital
Temple Bar Investment Trust
Just Group
Witan Investment Trust
Personal Assets Trust
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